VDC Awards Gold Vendor Status to Performance Technologies

5/10/2005 - Performance Technologies (Nasdaq NM: PTIX), a leading developer of integrated systems, platforms, components and software, announced it has been awarded Gold Board Vendor Status from Venture Development Corporation (VDC) for exemplary service to the embedded industry.

Each year, VDC distributes Merchant Embedded Board User Satisfaction surveys in conjunction with the preparation of its Industry Overview of the Merchant Computer Boards for Embedded/Real-Time Applications Intelligence Program. Gold or Platinum status is awarded to the top 30 companies ranked in these surveys.

“Recently, there has been a wave of industry consolidation, which we expect to continue. As more companies offer broader product lines, we have elected to only award Platinum and Gold status in a single, all-encompassing category,” said Eric Gulliksen, embedded hardware practice director for VDC. “Since more board categories are now included in the evaluation, making more firms eligible for an award, this actually makes achieving Platinum or Gold status more difficult than it had been in the past.”

“Venture Development Corporation is among the leading analyst firms in the embedded marketplace, and its opinions and reports are highly valued throughout the industry,” said Don Turrell, president and CEO of Performance Technologies. “We are honored to receive this prestigious distinction from such a respected firm.”

Performance Technologies is a single source solutions provider of platforms, slot components, development software and world-class support and maintenance programs. All products from Performance Technologies are integrated by design and offer equipment manufacturers and integrators the most unified and complete solution set for systems development.

About Performance Technologies
Performance Technologies (Nasdaq NM: PTIX) develops the systems, platforms, components and software solutions for the world's evolving communications infrastructure. Our broad customer base includes companies in the communications, military and commercial markets. Serving the industry for more than 20 years, our complete line of embedded and system-level products enables equipment manufacturers and service providers to offer highly available and fully-managed systems with time-to-market, performance and cost advantages.

Performance Technologies is headquartered in Rochester, New York. Additional operational and engineering facilities are located in San Diego and San Luis Obispo, California; Norwood, Massachusetts and Ottawa, Canada. For more information, visit www.pt.com or contact sales@pt.com.